Six is the second smallest composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2 and 3.

Six similar coins can be arranged around a central coin of the same radius so that each coin makes contact with the central one (and touches both its neighbors without a gap), but seven cannot be so arranged.

In binary code, six is 110; in ternary code six is 20; in quaternary numeral system code six is 12; in quinary six is 11; in senary six is 10; in septenary code and all codes above (such as octal, decimal and hexadecimal) six is 6.

The country newspaper dynasties are dying out, or selling out, unable to hold back the advance of time and the weakening interest or involvement of the later generations.

The death notices of six Queensland country dynasties were written the day the Irish/Australian takeover of Provincial Newspapers (Qld) Ltd took place in 1988, but not published until the knives were wielded on 3 March 1989.

Untimately, the nepotism that had seemed necessary half a century ago to the forward thrust of the sixdynasties contributed to the disentegration of the group they had formed, and the very protective devices they had engaged to keep the predators at bay became weapons of destruction.

The first emperor of the Eastern Jin dynasty employed a monk from the highborn Wang family as a court chaplain, and the next emperor, Mingdi, converted and became the first Chinese monarch to openly champion the new faith.

Six years later (534), the Yongning Temple was destroyed by fire, and the Northern Wei kingdom split into two rival states, called the Eastern and Western Wei (both claimed the Touba heritage as well as the Wei name).

The Tang dynasty was a time of extensive commerce between China and the rest of the known world, and many foreigners, especially Persians, came to China seeking their fortunes.

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is known as the SixDynasties, in reference to the native rulers in the south,...

Six rulers of Isin are known: Ishbigarra, Libit-Ishtar, Bur-Sin II, Ur-Ninib,Ishme-Dagan, and Enannatum.

Six rulers' suites on the top floor of the hotel are to be used only by royaltyvisiting from other Persian Gulf countries.

SixDynasties, period of Chinese history between the fall of the Han dynasty (

A.D. It is named for the six successive dynasties that appeared in S China during the period: the Wu (22280), the Eastern Ch'in (317419), the Liu-Sung (42079), the Southern Ch'i (479502), the Liang (50257), and the Ch'en (55789).

Although a time of severe political disunion, the period of the SixDynasties was marked by much originality in art, literature, and thought.

The collapse of the Han dynasty was followed by nearly four centuries of rule by warlords.

Unity was restored briefly in the early years of the Jin dynasty (A.D. The Jin could not long contain the invasions of the nomadic peoples, though, and was in A.D. 317 forced to flee from Luoyang to the south and reestablished itself at Nanjing.

During this period the process of sinicization accelerated among the non-Chinese arrivals in the north and among the aboriginal tribesmen in the south.

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The period between AD 221 and 280 is known as the Three Kingdoms, and that between AD 386 and 589 is referrred to as the Northern and Southern Dynasties or the SixDynasties.

Sixdynasties ruled successively in the south of China: the Western Jin (AD 265-316), followed by the Eastern Jin (317-420), the Song (420-79), the Southern Qi (479-502), the Liang (502-57) and the Chen (557-89).

China was re-united under the Sui dynasty by the Northern Zhou general Yang Jian in 589, as he swept into Jiankang having established his stronghold position in the north.

Thus I propose that the 12th Dynasty was the one of the Israelite Sojourn.

The six kings of the 15th Dynasty are given a total of 108 years in the Turin Canon while Josephus gives 260, Africanus 284 and Eusebius 250 years.

The invasion of Shoshenq I of the Libyan Dynasty should synchronize with the end of the Aramean domination of Israel in the 9th century at the beginning of the reign of King Jehoash of Israel.

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Thus Zhang concludes that understanding of tonal expressions in the SixDynasties will demonstrate the relationship between linguistics and poetry, and furthermore, show that the invention of tonal metrical patterns was a response to the linguistic changes after the Pre-Qin period.

Cheng explores the poetic features in the tomb inscription of the SixDynasties and attests to the prosodic role-play between the poetry and prose in the same piece of inscription.

During the Han dynasties, however, the flexible caesura prosody was gradually replaced by a syllable-counting system triggered by the newly developed foot structure caused by the simplification of syllable structure and the development of the tonal system.

Beginning with the Qin Dynasty, the common characteristic of Chinese rule is that there was one primary leader of China, the head of the Dynasty.

It was common for a Chinese Dynasty to follow a basic pattern: begin with a very powerful leader taking over a weakened country; develop over several generations to a highly successful and vital civilization; and then degrade to the point that an opponent could take over.

To help further elucidate the nature of a Dynasty, details of the Qing Dynasty, China's last, are presented in a separate table, showing each of the Emperors, and depicting some events that took place during their reign that influenced the future development of China.

It was like Ch'in Dynasty in that it accomplished a great deal in a short time and reunified China after a period of disruption, but it over stretched itself and was quickly replaced by another dynasty which proved to be more long-lasting.

Under the T'ang Dynasty, China achieved a true imperial structure, encompassing the entire country, and supported by a universal philosophical system, Confucianism, a common written language, and the technology to print it.

Government officials in the Sung Dynasty, in contrast to the T'ang, were largely coming from the examination system: over 50% of offices were staffed by exams, including the most important offices.

The Daoist distinction between being, the realm of the differentiated and namable phenomena, and nonbeing, the realm of undifferentiated and unnamable, from which it derived nonbeing was the essence, and being its function.

Buddhism thrived in the SixDynasties period, that marked the chaos and disunity of the period between the fall of the unified Han in 220 and the reunification of the land under the Sui in 618.

420589), four succeeding short-lived dynasties based at Chien-k'ang (now Nanking), which ruled over a large part of China south of the Yangtze River during much of the period of the SixDynasties (q.v.

The four dynasties were the Liu-Sung (420479), the Nan (Southern) Ch'i (479502), the Nan Liang (502557), and the Nan Ch'en (557589).

The Eastern Chin is considered one of the SixDynasties (q.v.).

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On Monday, we will look at China during a long period of disunity called the SixDynasties period (220-589 -- from now on, course dates will generally be A.D.).

We'll move from this on to the SixDynasties period.

But when we get to the next major dynasty, the Tang (618-907), we'll explore more fully artistic expression and its role in a culture which synthesized Confucianism and Daoism.

Written in the Ming dynasty by Wu Cheng'en, this supernatural novel recounts the pilgrimage of a Chinese monk and his animal companions to India in the 7th century.

Poetry of Du Fu - The Tang Dynasty was the Golden Age of Chinese literature, and Du Fu was one of the greatest poets of the period.

(2.0) - Sima Guang was a renowned historian and statesman of the Tang Dynasty.

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At its peak the Han Dynasty controlled a region which extended into Vietnam and Yunnan in the south, into Turkestan in the west, north to Mongolia and to the eastern coastline including northern Korea and Manchuria.

Following the eventual collapse of the Han kingdoms China was ruled by a number of short-lived dynasties and it would be 400 years before the country was united again.

The more unsettled times between the end of the Han and the start of the Tang Dynasty in 618 was a period of transition in the development of ceramics wares.

It is also my hope that this distinction between dramatic and narrative modes of presentation will on the one hand provide a framework for the interpretation of individual poems, and on the other contribute to the understanding of pivotal importance of Han yüeh-fu in the development of other modes in later pentasyllabic poetry.

The former are anonymous love songs in the yüeh-fu categories of Chiang-nan Wu sheng (wu songs of the Chiang nan region), Ching ch'u hsi sheng (western songs from Ching and Ch'u), and ku chiao heng ch'ui ch'ü (songs accompanied by drum, horn, and transverse flute); while the latter are shih quatrains by scholar poets.

A small number of quatrains appear to merge the two styles; in such cases the first couplet is generally a declarative statement for descriptive purposes, and the second is a modal statement for expressive purposes.

By the arrival of the Tang Dynasty Buddhism had become the main stream religion of China and often Chinese Buddhism is equated to a tree with one trunk and many branches to express the wide diversities of different types of Buddhist sects and beliefs.

TIn dating and ascertaining the origins of SixDynasties gemstone artifacts it is impossible to ascertain the particular kingdom or ruler that influenced its creation.

Authentic SixDynasties Jades artifacts are indeed a joy to behold.

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From the time of the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) tomb models showing aspects of daily life were common in China.

After the fall of the Han dynasty the spectacular range of funerary models diminished, reappearing only after a few centuries with a new emphasis on figures, rather than buildings which had been more common in the Han.

This large earthenware tomb model is slightly later in date, from a period of disunity in China known as the SixDynasties (AD 265-589).

This singular work presents the most comprehensive and nuanced studies available in any Western language of Chinese aesthetic thought and practice during the SixDynasties (A.D. Despite a succession of dynastic and social upheavals, the literati preoccupied themselves with both the sensuous and the transcendent and strove for cultural dominance.

Grounded in close readings of primary texts, they reveal the complex, dynamic interplay between life and art, the sensuous and the metaphysical, and the artistic and the philosophicaleligious that lies at the heart of the aesthetic thought and practice of the time.

As a whole, the collection demonstrates that SixDynasties achieved a sophistication in aesthetic thought comparable in many ways to that of the West: The discussion of disinterestedness in art, aesthetic judgment, and how mental images mediate between the supersensible and the sensible are reminiscent of Kant.

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confederation of five (later six) Indian tribes across upper New York state that during the 17th and 18th centuries played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for mastery...

The six planets beyond Earth are very different - from the gaseous Red Spot of Jupiter to the ancient riverbeds of Mars.

Ongoing project to document six Spanish texts dating from the early 13th to the early 15th century.